Case Range Statement ..

[Walter Bright]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> Solving both 
> together is a little more worth it, but enought to warant a language 
> feature, I have some doubths.

I'm fairly convinced it is not worth a language feature. It looks good 
in the abstract, but is useless in practice. I write loops every day, 
and I can't recall ever having a need for it.

Sometimes I run across someone else's code that does:

    for (i = 0; i <= 10; i++)
    {
	... array[i] ...
    }

and I'll always rewrite it as i<11, because the former confuses my brain 
into creating bugs.

D has a lot of features. We should be parsimonious with new ones in that 
they should offer a convincing big payoff, not merely a miniscule 
hypothetical one.